Important Historical Figures

First female US senate majority leader. She later became a Supreme Court Justice.

American Campaigner against slavery and for the promotion of women’s and workers' rights.

In 1928, she became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean

This Founding Father was an inventor, scientist, activist, author, and held many other jobs

Civil Rights activist best known for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man leading to the bus boycott.

This scientist published works on gravity, conservation, momentum and lots more in the 1600s

He felt that we needed to fight in the Civil war to prevent the nation from splitting apart.

Joined the Underground Railroad as a conductor to help free slaves in the 1850s.

Actual name is Samuel Clemens. He was an American author and humorist made famous by his novel Huckleberry Fin

This Baptist minister and social activist won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964

First Black US President?

Wrote the Declaration of Independence

This former German scientist produced papers on Brownian motion and Relativity

Longest Serving US President

Though some doubt he wrote all 37 plays and 154 sonnets, he was influential in literature.